Statues - Hither & Thither

Gründer des Stifts St. Lambrecht

Founders of St. Lambrecht's Abbey

1730-50

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Description

Flanking the main gate of the abbey are statues of the founders of the abbey and their wives. The Abbey was founded in 1076 by Markward of Eppenstein and the foundation was finished under Markward's son Heinrich III respectively in 1103 (installation of abbot Hartmann), 1109 (confirmation by pope Paschalis II) and 1114 (imperial confirmation by Heinrich IV.)

Sophie
(d. 1154), daughter of Margrave Leopold II of Babenberg, married after 1103 with Duke Heinrich.
She was his third wife, he was first married with Beatrix, daughter of Count Otto von Dießen, and 1096 Liutgard.